Romans 6:5

Romans 6:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
• New International Version (NIV)For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

Context of Romans 6:5

3Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways]. For if we have become one with Him [permanently united] in the likeness of His death, we will also certainly be [one with Him and share fully] in the likeness of His resurrection. 6We know that our old self [our human nature without the Holy Spirit] was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. 7For the person who has died [with Christ] has been freed from [the power of] sin.

Romans 6:5 word by word

εἰ γὰρ σύμφυτοι γεγόναμεν τῷ ὁμοιώματι τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως ἐσόμεθα·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• ifεἰei · ifG1487
• we have beenγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• planted togetherσύμφυτοςsumphutos · unitedG4854
• in the likenessὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• in the likenessὁμοίωμαhomoiōma · likenessG3667
• of hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• deathθάνατοςthanatos · deathG2288
• we shall beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• ·ἀλλάalla · butG235
• alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• resurrectionἀνάστασιςanastasis · resurrectionG386

Cross-references for Romans 6:5

• Romans 6:8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live [together] with Him,
• Ephesians 2:5even when we were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us [spiritually] alive together with Christ (for by His grace—His undeserved favor and mercy—you have been saved from God’s judgment).
• Philippians 3:10And this, so that I may know Him [experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understanding the remarkable wonders of His Person more completely] and [in that same way experience] the power of His resurrection [which overflows and is active in believers], and [that I may share] the fellowship of His sufferings, by being continually conformed [inwardly into His likeness even] to His death [dying as He did];
• Psalms 92:13Planted in the house of the Lord, They will flourish in the courts of our God.
• Isaiah 5:2He dug it all around and cleared away its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine (the people of Judah). And He built a tower in the center of it; And also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes, But it produced only worthless ones.
• Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned against Me Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?
• Matthew 15:13He answered, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant will be torn up by the roots.
• John 12:24I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone [just one grain, never more]. But if it dies, it produces much grain and yields a harvest.
• John 15:1“ I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

Commentaries on Romans 6:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5For if we have been planted together - . Dr. Taylor observes, that our translation does not completely express the apostle's meaning. are such plants as grow, the one upon and in the other, deriving sap and nourishment from it, as the mistletoe upon the oak, or the scion upon the stock in which it is grafted. He would therefore translate the words: For if we have been growers together with Christ in the likeness of his death, (or in that which is like his…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5For if we have been planted together - The word used here ́ sumphutosdoes not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It properly means sown or planted at the same time; what sprouts or springs up together; and is applied to plants and trees that are planted at the same time, and that sprout and grow together. Thus, the name would be given to a field of grain that was sown at the same time, and where the grain sprung up and grew simultaneously. Hence, it…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-10Verses 3-10 Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had the outward sign of a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, but they never passed from the family of Satan to that of God. The corrupt nature, called the old man, because derived from our first father Adam, is crucified with Christ, in…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. For if we have been planted together--literally, "have become formed together." (The word is used here only). in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection--that is, "Since Christ's death and resurrection are inseparable in their efficacy, union with Him in the one carries with it participation in the other, for privilege and for duty alike." The future tense is used of participation in His resurrection, because…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 6:5

• Death
• Holiness
• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ
• Life
• Regeneration
• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Destroy
• Faith
• Fruit
• Justification
• Newness
• Obey
• Reign
• Wages
• Works, Good
• Baptism (non-Immersionist View)

Commentaries on Romans 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings